Conservatives for Democrats

Submitted by wes.whitman on 2018, October 8 - 00:00

If there's any true conservatives in America, they'll be voting Democrat for the foreseeable future. The Trumpist Republican Party is the party of fascism, chaos, and political instability—the harbingers of right-wing anarchy and revolution. Trump, Kavanaugh, and Ryan are molotov cocktails thrown by an angry, short-sighted, and ignorant mob to burn down the system—a wrench thrown into the gears of government to sabotage the republic. Trump's right-hand man Bannon can call himself a Leninist, because the elite clique, vanguard party, and one-party fascist State is his vision for America. The Republican Party has become the arch-enemy of conservatism. But this does not mean they are progressive. On the contrary, the Republicans, the evangelicals, the Alt-Right, and the rest are neither progressive nor conservative, but regressive. And the ignorant masses are not intelligent enough to distinguish between conservatism and regressivism.

The Democratic Party is predominantly a conservative party, with Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and other social democrats representing a progressive, but certainly anti-revolutionary, wing of this conservative party. I'm sitting here re-reading Russell Kirk's “The Conservative Mind” and finding myself agreeing with a lot of it, though not wholeheartedly. Any more, I lean center-left, but the conservative in me can't help but see the Democratic Party as the ally of the spirit of Edmund Burke.

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